Junction or outlet box.



' l wvwiwoca PATENTED 001 so, 1906.

G. A. LUTZ. JUNOTION'O'R OUT-LET BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 813F114, 1905.

GEORGE A. Ll]

25, QB NEW YORK, Y.

\JUNQTEQN QR QUTLET BOX.

No. moose Epeoification. of Letters Patent.

Patented. oo. 30, loos,

z'ipplioaiiou filed September 14,1965. 'b'orial No. 273.426.

To will whon'zl Hwy corwewn:

4 Be it known that l, GEORGE A. Lu'rz, a citizoii oi the United. States, residing in New York city, borough of Brooklyn, New York, have invented oormiii new and useful 1mprjovomoms in Junction 02; Ouilol, Bums, of which the following is o, spooifiosition.

In installing conduits for electric ooiiductors lines are frooiientl" run in various diioo tions from. jliIlGlliOD. or outlet boxes, i'osotcos, receptacles, and Lilo like, that .s-ro usually provided with oops or covers.

The object of my iovonpion is to provide improved moons for .omovsbly holding tho caps or covers upoo junotiowboxos, receptacles, rosettes, or the like which are conmooted with or mounted upon conduits.

1n the form. of 1113* invention fOXtlliwl 3- iii 11love shown a I'GC-QPt-LClE or box oonnooted. with conduits that have one sido own and are providoi'l with removable covers, l'llio roceplvsolo or box hoviogo cap or cox oi piovidoi'i. with dovioes ohm: engage tl'io cowl-s on tho .oonduits for holding os iii positionui'iiil the oovoifs of the so been moved book froi'o ongsgsi'n- 1 devices of tho cap, and, ss shown, tho (rap or portions depending in lino Willi. (lie ends of the oovoirs of coiiif' iiis to limit sot pus like.

'..l1o lll'lfv'vlllifll). a l-so oompi'i filo novol lobsils of inipiovomom timwiil be more fully lioisinol'tor set ioiili smitiaon pzjinio 'l out in the olsin'is.

Boioronoo Lo ho had to ilio oooompnoy. ing (lroii ings, forming part iioi'oo'l' Figure 3 is o plan yiow illo provomonls. Big. 2 is o, s ilwfri g'iiiiily in SQUl/lOIl, on lilo lino l 3 o longiiuilizml sooiion on ilio lion}; 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plain vilkw siwiliu' to F g. 1 with the mp removed, and Fig. 5 :1

looking oi tho under sioo oi' llw mp. Similar numerals ol reforms-o ind responding psi-is in him SQJi 'il'i-l wows.

in tho drawings, lilo immoral l iiuiiooles o-Lo our siilo open and providml Wli-ll removable. oovois 2, which. oovois in tho iliusli'olioii oi mg oimi'omly soil infrinvoiitioii are zoooivodm opposed grooms J Oll' llio covers 2 to on:

1 in tho side walls of tho conduits i, so the covers may slide along the conduits; out thoone sids and ooimootod with the ends of tho.

oondu its 1, whereby the wires to be contained in the conduits may run through said box or branch oi'i therefrom.

1n tlis drawings the box or i'ooopbaolo 8 is shown pro flirlocl with s plumlisy of branches 3, with lsio ends of the oomluits 1 ore co11nectocl,sn i, shown. in Fig. 2, the ends of the conduits l FGOGiVEfi in said bro-nolios between the bottom and side wsllsthoroof, in the nature of o loonil lilio connection. As a. means fol firmly securing the oonduit-s to the box or roooptaolo 3 i have shown the ends of the branches 3 provided with toiigiios 3*, t-hsi through slots 1 in the conduits 1. and. ore bent book ogoinstolio bUll" toms of tlio oondoiils, tiioi'eby holding the parts i and. 8 Iiimlybot do toohsblyi-ogs'clisi. in oi'doi' that ooncluolors ii'io r be pulled through the box oi plgsolo 3 around the ooirf 3" witliooe l's'lj'ullllg tho insulsiaion on silo conductors, I have shown the walls of the box at said ooi'nors as curved or i'oundsd, said. walls having their ooiwox surfaces within the box 01" lGGBPtSLOlG, (soo Fig. 4,) theourv (l comer walls 3 thus extending be swoon ixcsnolios 3, than; it so s iglo to each oil). 1. Tim box rooopisolo 3 may be PN-(lb oi 551w. mom; boot and sliaiioil to 91'0- villel llfifi ljlomi om :mcl side walls there-oi or may lieof cast metal 0 fori'oe-(l iii any suit" deli the adjacent ends ff nll'l'lil asp from. hom

tion box or receptacle 6owith a movable cover,

liiued from the box or receptacle 3 after the covers 2 have been properly adjusted. over said lips and until the covers 2 are moved ack or removed from said lips.

In utilizing my improvements the conduits are connected with the box or receptacle 3, and after the conductors have been suitably located within the conduits and box the cap 4 is placed over the latter, and thus over the adjacent ends of the conduits, and the covers 2 are then adjusted against the depending projections 4 and over the li s 4, and thus the caps will be securely hel in place until e covers are removed, from engagement with the lips 4. By this means ready access may be had to the conductors within the box or receptacle by merely moving back or taking-off the covers 2 and lifting oil the cap 4,.

While I have shown the box or receptacle 3 provided with three branches or outlets 3, it will be understood that my invention is not limited to such number of branches or outlets for connection with conduits, for the box or receptacle may have two branches or outlets alined or at an angle to each other, as in'the nature of an elbow, or may have any desired number of branches or outlets, the-ca p 4 bed ing correspondingly shaped While I have referred to the part 3 as an outlet or juncit will be understood that my invention may be used in con nection with rosettes, receptacles having contacts, or other equivalent devices adapted to connect with or to be mounted upon conduits for permitting contained electric conductors to be run in various directions or to make connection with electric contacts, &c., and I use the "term receptacle in a broad sense to comprehend any equivalent device connected with or mounted uf'pon orlocated at the endsof conduits to receive or distribute the conductors, whether the cap incloses a box or is mounted over a conduit.

My invention is not limited to the particular arrangement of parts herein set forth and illustrated, as the same maybe varied without departing from the'sp'irit of my invention.

Having now described my invention, what. I claim is- I l. The combination of a conduit rovided with a movable cover, with a cap raving a member engaging the cover to retain the cap over the conduit.

r 2. The combination of a conduit I rovided with a movable cover, with a cap ii lug extending in line with the cover, and a lip engaging the cover to hold the cap in place.

3. The combination of a conduit provided with a box, and a cap having a member engaging the cover to re tainthe'cap upon the box.

4. The combination of a conduitprovided with a movable cover, with a box, means for holding the box in operative position, and a aving a cap having a lug extending in line with the cover and a lip engaging the cover to retain the ea in place.

5 he combination of a box and a plurality of conduits having movable covers, said ox having a cap provided with means to engage said covers to retain the cap upon the 6. The combination of a box and a plurality of conduits having movable covers, means for holding the box in operative position, said box having a cap provided with lugs to engage the covers to limit the inward movement of the letter toward the box, and means to engage the covers to hold the cap on the box.

7. The combination ity of conduits having for holding the box said box having a cap tending in the path of inward movement of of a box and a pluralmovable covers, means in operative position, provided with lugs cxsaid covers to limit the the covers toward the box, and lips extending under the ugVGIS to hold the cap on the box.

8. The combination ofa box havo'ig outlets, and means for holding the box in operativ'e' position, with'conduits provided with cated in line with the outlets of the box, said box having a cap provided with inwardly-extending lugs and outwardly-extending lips to engage the covers to limit the movement of the covers toward the box and to hold the 'cap upon the box.

9. A device of the character described comprising a box having-a luralit of outlets and a cap having a lurahty of lugs extending toward said out ate and also having lips extending outwardly, and meat-s for holding the box in o erative'position. for the purposes set fort o 10. A device of the character described comprising a box provided with a )lurality of outlets and a-cap having a plurality of lugs extending toward the box, said lugs being provided with outwardly-exteiiding lips, and means for holding the box in operative position, for the purposes-set forth.

'11. The combination of a box provided with a plurality of branches, conduits alined with said branches, means for attaching the conduits to the branches, removable covers for the conduits, and a cap for the box having portions extending over the branches and provided with lugs extending in line with the covers of the conduits for retaining the cap upon the box.

12. The combination of a box with a plurality of branches, conduits alined with said branches, means for holding the box in operative position, means for attaching the conduits to the brancl'ies, removable covers for the conduits, and a cap'for the box having portions extending over the branches and provided with lugs extending in line removable covers and having their ende,lo-

provided with the coners of the conduits, and lips to 1 ing said conduits, and a cap provided with V engage the covers to hold the latter on the remeans to engage said covers to retain the cap ceptacle. upon the box.

13. An outlet or junction box having a GEORGE A. LUTZ.

5 plurality of vbranches extending outwardly, Witnesses:

said branches having prongs, combined with I 4 T. F. BOU'RNE, conduits having covers, said prongs engag- M. HOLLINQSHEAD. 

